ending the european question david cameron promises britain's a referendum on leaving the e.u. . special favors for the u.k. as a precondition to staying put. jordan is left divided with only parliamentary elections and for two years of arab spring unrest in the country amid a slew of accusations the government has hijacked the vote. and links emerged between internet freedom activist aaron swartz and we keep leaks surprise revelations about him surface after his suicide under pressure from a massive criminal case.

around the world online on screen live for money center here in moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day. britain has been promised a referendum on ditching the e.u. although it's subject to prime minister david cameron's political fortunes in the next election finally delivering his long awaited speech the prime minister valid to win a special deal for u.k. from brussels while blasting the block for snuffing out diversity and disagreement . in london this isnt it. did pledge to hold a referendum on whether britain should be able to leave the e.u. if the conservatives win the next general election in twenty fifteen and then he went on to warn that it was likely that britain could head for the exit if he was unable to renegotiate britain's terms of membership with brussels what it effectively he wants is that brussels hands more power back to westminster so the

u.k. has more control over its own policies particularly economic ones he said that countries were becoming weaker because of the current situation within the european union and the euro zone crisis and the fact that countries did not have great control over their own economic policies so he wasn't mincing his words today he also went on to say that the british public felt disillusioned with the european union and felt disappointed with the lack of apparently democracy and accountability from all the directives that get handed to other member states from brussels this is what david cameron had to say there is a gap between the e.u. and its citizens which has grown dramatically in recent years and which represents a lack of democratic approach accountability and consent that is yes felt particularly acutely here in britain what are you saying to a lot of people did saying quite confrontational but it was also trying to stress the fact that look please don't denounce britain for having nation you style of

thinking should be encouraged and he believes that with this he might be able to make europe the better place. although david cameron failed to mention the specific date for the referendum he hinted that it would come no worry of the twenty eighteen you also spoke of the tremendous disadvantage for britain were to leave but stephen wolfe city of london spokesman for the u.k. independence party i spoke to a little earlier he says that is simply not true. they said that we would be in huge problems if we came out of the already they said that business would not actually invest in the u.k. unless we join the euro this isn't going to happen and we're not going to hit believe the false promises and the false concerns that european politicians and big businesses are actually going to throw as i mean there's an unholy alliance that seems to be forming with three old conservatives with large corporations with members of the labor party who want to frighten the people of this country to say that they can't survive on their own but we're still the set for largest trading

nation in the world so yes the public in this country know that there is a problem out there they understand the arguments and they're not going to be fooled this time by a political elite. europe's leaders have begun reacting to the prime minister's speech with warnings of worse to come if the u.k. pushes for the exit door the main message seems to be that britain is not in a position to dictate which rules it will follow and which it won't be one of his following the reaction in europe. well as you can imagine david cameron's speech was watched very very closely here in mainland europe and it's being greeted with concern pretty much all across the board here in germany the foreign minister it did of s. the value said that you know germany have their own problems with brussels having too much power in their opinion over domestic policy of member states however the way that david cameron was looking at going about changing not was and the way forward a similar type of reaction in france from the french foreign minister and he said

that well it was that it could be dangerous for the united kingdom if it was to go it's a load outside of europe saying what david cameron was suggesting was like turning up to play for a football team and then walk upon a rival saying no no let's play rugby essentially is that moving the goal posts martin schulz the speaker of the european parliament certainly pulling no punches he said it would be and it was ridiculous basically what david cameron was putting forward and in fact pointed the finger at back at the united kingdom saying that the u.k. always complains that decisions in brussels take too long the speaker of the parliament saying well it's the united kingdom that draws these things out and drags them out and makes them take too long essentially though the underlying message from everybody across europe from leaders across europe this seems to be concerned particularly concerned that if david cameron. negotiate these new terms for the u.k.

well can everybody. within the union and willis create a twenty eight speed european union whereby everybody just looks out for their own interests and doesn't really look out for what best for you. some leaders however such as chancellor angela merkel have hinted that they're ready to listen to the u.k.'s demands and exulted he's a german m.e.p. from the alliance of liberals and democrats for europe says that cameron should decide once and for all where britain belongs britain already has a lot of exceptions to the usual treaties and one day you would have to question yourself are you part of a family or are you not so what david cameron is actually doing is setting fire without being able to control it of course not everything is perfect but just because we have to improve the situation doesn't mean that we generally have to change the system i personally do believe that people see the benefits and of course we had times was ups which were perfectly so far the first time you're sees

a severe crisis which actually has been caused by the member states now the european union is more key to the solution than problem i would say an unavoidable result of reckless politics you're sick of the state hillary clinton having a tough questions over what she thinks led to a deadly attack on an american consulate in libya last year. first jordanians have been heading to the polls today after the king announced early parliamentary elections spurred into action by two years of arab spring protests but the chorus of critical voices says the country is still as far from any real change as it was in two thousand and eleven and they claim the government is bound to rig the ballot is in jordan for us right now. many here say that the reforms simply are too few and too late now there have been some efforts for example to make the elections more open this is the first time that outside election monitors are going to be observing the vote here but at the end of the day

the new parliament just still not going to be able to pass legislation freely and can be dismissed at any time by a royal decree now the biggest source of discontent here is a new election law which critics claim is rigged in favor of pro-government candidates by allowing favoring in fact a larger number of rural tribal representatives who are largely seen as being loyal to the government in fact of the one hundred fifty seats available in this parliament only twenty seven can go to candidates from national parties and the muslim brotherhood is the largest most popular and the biggest political party here in jordan and has really been the driving force behind the boycott of this vote and the opposition but of course discontent isn't just limited to the islamists many regular jordanians here feel that corruption has continued to be rampant and are quite frustrated with the economic situation in this country and that is why we see a lot of voter apathy it really is

a major test of whether these small incremental changes by the monarchy are going to be enough to placate the opposition from the people who we've talked to in fact the leadership of the muslim brotherhood says that it simply won't go enough in fact this election is frankly only the opening salvo in what is likely to be many months of unrest here in jordan because the new parliament is likely to be seen as being toothless by much of the population that's going to set up a very difficult future of four four four four jordanians who feel like their interests are not being represented by the government they want more representation they want more freedom and they want more of a say in the future that their country takes they don't necessarily feel that the steps taken by the government so far. that more importantly the economic situation is really going to be the determining whether the arab spring essentially really unfolds here in jordan much of the unrest has been caused by for example food and

fuel subsidies and those are only likely to increase. that are being imposed by the i.m.f. at the moment so it really doesn't look like things are going to be calming down anytime soon before the election we talked to the incumbent prime minister who said that the opposition should use much shrewder tactics. in the program. in the future. and possible strong. support for the french intervention in mali as the increasing number of. african experts believe. that opinion is coming up in just. expert analysis on. clinton is

testifying to congress about last year's deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in the libyan city of benghazi republican members grilled her on the lapses in security that led to the death of the american. what i found most interesting we heard a secular state acknowledge that the revolutions in the region have led to the spread of extremism on the revolution she said it's been a great opportunity for the united states but it is also a great swept the u.s. certainly seize the opportunity when they made the revolution in libya happened because it was mostly due to the u.s. foreign power that the rebels there were able to take over hillary clinton cheered when that happened and generally up until the tragic attack in benghazi in september and the murder of the u.s. ambassador there this is ministration had the head libya checked as a foreign policy success and what's happening in the region now of course looks anything but success we actually heard that in hillary clinton's testimony as she

talked about the spread of extremism the spread of weapons in the region and a new opening in the war on terror benghazi did not happen in a vacuum the arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region instability in mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in algeria she also talked about how the u.s. needs to help the governments in the we can to deal with their security to build institutions all of this in the context of this expanding war on terror so to anyone who expected a smaller u.s. footprint in the region that's probably not going to happen from what we heard today if anything one could expect a bigger u.s. footprint in the region. canada is considering extending its commitment to

the french intervention in mali including sending troops and offering the just tickles support that's after the u.s. italy and the u.k. also boosted their backing for the operation or to talk more about the incursion let's talk to independent political analyst dan glazer. how significant is it that canada or is extending its support for france and indeed why is it considering to boost its support. well i think we have to look at the western powers as one kind of one one one block at the moment in the sense that they have the kind of the european and american north american economic system is is collapsing and we've seen that since two thousand and eight and what a lot of these we've seen this increasing drive for war because the economic power is in decline it's with the rise of the east and with china their own internal contradictions in their own economic system this is driving them towards war as well as a means of maintaining propping up their power because the economic powers declining

so they're relying increasingly on military power to do things like secure resources and secure it's got control whereas they used to be able to rely on. economic blackmail of what some people perhaps more properly called economic white male to extort through mechanisms of so-called debt and so on to extort and plunder resources of places like africa purely through banking extortion financial economic extortion they're no longer able to compete on an economic level so with places like china so when you get china offering deals like the recent congo nine billion dollar low interest loan china offered to congo in return for mining concessions. and with really part of which china was going to build thousands of health care centers housing is hospitals and so on the west simply cannot compete with their crummy economy with those kinds of deals so what are they reduced to outright

military left the economic political economic and let me just ask you hillary clinton she just said that mali is becoming a breeding ground for terrorism after all that's why france went in there because they're saying that what's happening mali is a threat to the region and also indeed to europe so they've got a point they've got to do something haven't they about islamist extremism there. well they are doing something they're they're they're creating it and they're turning it into a safe haven for terrorists and they did this in libya if we look at the results of military activity by the west the last ten years you've created failed states everywhere they've gone if created instability iraq was not a breeding ground for al qaeda before two thousand and three it is mao you know the proxy war against syria massively funded and aided and abetted by the west has turned that into a breeding ground for terrorism so on everywhere they go this happens after terrorism is nothing concrete in afghanistan support for us from for is through the

roof now because of the military onslaught against that country by the west so they're creating. i just to support your argument there of course we've heard that libyan islamists are now supporting those in mali that's after of course european nations actually helped them to power but is that really true is that really happening. yeah of course i mean we even major general jonathan shaw wrote last week in the end of pendent as a former head of u.k. a new chief of staff of u.k. land forces no less than all thirty name and he said look this was happy miley is a direct result of the arming of of rebels and gadhafi in gadhafi libya. as well as the fall of gadhafi get after he was a key player in negotiating peace deals the last peace deal in northern mali in the gulf was negotiated in two thousand and eight and my guess we're going after him so he was the linchpin of a lot of the security system in north africa plus the arming of the rebels plus the

looting and get out of his own. weaponry by the rebel forces that's was created this instability and again this is not completely is this is not unforeseen consequences and there may be stupid the imperialists but they're not completely blind to the results of their actions we're going to go now that because the french are currently securing support from more and more nato members we just mentioned calendar as well is it basically saying that the situation in mali is too big for them to handle and this is going to go on longer than they originally thought it i think again they know that this is going to be a long drawn out war but they don't say that to their people because it doesn't win support so hollande says oh it's just going to be a few weeks it's nonsense it's going to be a long drawn out war but again they're hoping that the instability will spread actually and they're hoping it will spread to algeria because it is the last independent anti clonal state in left in north africa has already spread to because obviously they're saying what happened then in mali what happened in algeria is a result of what happened in mali is there definitely a connection there because some are saying this this hostage crisis was actually

planned long before what happened in mali. well it may have been planned before but mali operation gave the opportunity for it to be carried out because a lot of algerians resources were diverted from the border with libya towards the border with mali so they were in a crisis situation bore about by the events in mali which gave the opportunity for terrorists to cross the border into syria there's a very revealing article in published by strat for a couple of days ago the global intelligence analysis firm which said openly that algerian gas is going to be key to europe's energy security as north sea gas runs out over the next few years and the big obstacle for europe being able to get hold of this is quite the nationalistic government of algeria and its protectionist policies and this is the biggest obstacle to europe gas it's going to need from

algeria what it said it could live with interest i want to make this quote he said actually the quote is that the existing involvement of the e.u. energy majors in high risk countries like nigeria libya yemen and iraq indicates quote a healthy tolerance for instability in security problems so they're saying they can live with and destabilized failed state algeria and still extract the gas they need in that situation but they can't live with is the current nationalistic regime and they're hoping to destabilize it don't forget the cold war policy era of support the west importing these kind of brutal strong man states who could guarantee security for their investment is over they no longer need strong states to guarantee their investments they have private security now private security companies to nation of all the stooges were taken in libya b.p. to drop a massive agreement for an oil deal in libya or doesn't there's no libyan state to protect us that's destroyed but they're going to use their own private security

group for security is the biggest employer in europe now. six hundred thousand staff and their share prices are going through the roof from instability in north africa this is the new way of doing business interesting perspective thank you very much indeed independent is going to done glazebrook joining us live there from oxford in the u.k. thank you. well the libyan based islamists are accused of helping the deadly hostage taking in algeria the point that we touched on in that interview that we broke and that came in response to france's actions in mali well in the next hour peter lavelle bilski has crossed to guess whether the west is on a massive campaign against islam as a whole and just when it could lead. knighted states is involved in about fifty four countries on the continent of africa right now finding people that maybe six months to six years down the road turn out to be. the bad guy so we are creating little fires all over africa and i don't think that

you knighted states taxpayer is fully aware of this and would fully be on board with the idea that our ever dwindling resources are going to pay for all of these. incursions there were relationships. crosstalk coming away very shortly here in r.t. a close run election is israel and the prospect of a hardline far right government details on that for you after the break. it's.

more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are. plenty.

here most of the news continues now the high profile internet freedom activist who took his life early this month after he's prosecuted for alleged hacking could have had close links to wiki leaks the whistleblowing group shared the surprising revelation his twitter feed revealed that swartz communicated with julian assange the activist is also strongly believed to be a source of leaked information on his case he spoke to the internet entrepreneur kim dot com he is now accused of piracy by the u.s. he said it was entirely political. aaron schwartz i mean he's stopped sopa with his efforts he starts off and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reasonable. cause behind it going after young juniors like that in the fashion the that it's political and you can see more of that interview as well as analysis

nabby martin's breaking the set that's coming your way in just a few hours from now on he's andrew blake he was the one who interviewed kim dotcom internet internet freedom activists told him that he's ready to defend people's right to free information. it's been over a year now almost a year exactly since kim dotcom this mansion in new zealand was raided by the authorities in conjunction with the f.b.i. investigation and the department of justice says that by operating the file storage site upload participate in this vast conspiracy that duped hollywood and the music and movie industry out of half a billion dollars by letting people share files freely over the internet now it's been a year now and kim dotcom has released a new project but he's saying that this whole new project he wants to do it's called mega everything is encrypted in its way for people to take information whether it's just a simple word documents or an p three s. or movie files and to share them with others but while doing it all privately through encryption and you know i spoke with him and he was telling me that this is

something that is actually necessary given the state of affairs today where the government is watching everyone no matter where you are no matter what you're doing . iran's foreign minister who said he wants talks on these country's nuclear energy program to be held in current egypt will be welcome to suggestions iran and the other six nations involved in the talks including russia china and the u.s. all say they want to begin according to iran's nuclear activities. people to be killed in northern iraq after a suicide blast at a mosque targeted the funeral of a relative of a politician who was killed a day earlier so the militants have been blamed for the talk of violence as the country suffers from sectarian bloodshed. extremely low temperatures are creeping across america's upper midwest to the moment after what's been dubbed the deep freeze is. at least four deaths reported to be cool so full and the ski resort is closed because of the cold snap. from kind of the shocking

even a part of the u.s. for many it was cold winter is to say that states from ohio to maine could continue to suffer. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu may have won the general election but he's done so only by the skin of his teeth the almost all predictions the biggest winners were to the center with concern over health prices seemingly trumping nuclear threats and that is policy reports it may leave netanyahu desperate enough to turn to the extreme right for help. the voting here might be in secret but what's no secret is the result there was never really any doubt that prime minister netanyahu would win another term in office but the not on paper isn't matched by the anger on the street. we know that netanyahu brought about a deficit of thirty nine billion dollars he's going to cut the welfare social education and health budgets this is what the next four years will look like. and he met me

and him everybody i'm scared to death i really am and it will be a disaster very simply he's going to rob us of the chance to fulfill to zionism and israel. knows that it's not on our whose hands will be tied trying to under mystic anger half of his rages are more concerned about the economy they're making peace with a posting in his or dealing with iran's nuclear ambitions but it's precisely these issues that see israel on a coalition course with the international community. continuing to build new settlements. daily not weekly. this is really a very powerful signal to the palestinians to the. community that is not willing to move for the long the road to settle in this settlement was founded nearly thirty years ago by just fifteen families it's since grown fifty

fold at a rate of about one hundred families a year for the world to tell me that if i'm going to build a summer whole want to have kilometer of course on my house is an obstacle to peace is absurd. the sets are such that jews came back to their enchant land the facts are such that we as a population are growing i am not willing to the former house for what for what peace mission yahoo has vowed that the days of uprooting jews are behind he needs the support of the sectors and right wing parties if his coalition is to succeed a gamble american president barack obama has reportedly warned will lead the country down the path of isolation it's no secret netanyahu and obama don't see eye to eye and not just on what's happening within israel's borders i think the issue of iran will come back to that they will it will not surprise i think anyone in israel if we'll see an israeli attack the next year or two for nathaniel are always

seen as critical for through his work into these unable to postpone. the issue of the palestinian issue and so now begins the obvious task of coalition building it could take weeks of bargaining and negotiations before the final makeup of the new government is declared if netanyahu stays true to the polls he could be on course to give israel the most hard line government in its history policy archie . political analysts kummel was me i spoke to middle early here in r.t. he says that netanyahu faces a tough political times ahead became very weak and the need to probably to go to very extreme right and is that's going to be very difficult for him because he has to deal with obama and he has to deal with the new administration that brought with them probably chuck hagel.